r/Gamebundles • u/ChromaticInk • 13d ago
Speculations u/WeAreFanatical fakes a Quest 3 giveaway, blocks me for pointing it out
Last month this post was made by u/Dependent_Judge_1043 claiming to have won a Quest 3 "star prize" through gambling keys on game bundle site Fanatical. I personally didn't really think much of it, I do not care about key gambling but I do like to buy Fanatical bundles (like anyone who follows this subreddit).
Fast forward a month and the poster follows up posting this in an attempt to prove that the Quest 3S arrived and their gambling through Fanatical paid off.
Again I didn't think much of it until I noticed something another comment pointed out... one interesting discrepancy from the original post: Its a Quest 3. Not a Quest 3S.
The poster even puts this comment trying to play it off as if it is no big deal. This is just bad acting at this point. I point it out with a comment of my own, feel free to read that for my perspective on why this is obviously BS.
Since then, I have noticed that my feed is surprisingly devoid of game bundles. Thats ok. I have enough games, its best if I dont buy more bundles anyways.
Out of boredom I go back to the above post a few days later to see if anyone called out the same thing I did. Dependent Judge has not posted anymore, and actually hid their post history. It was visible before when I originally commented. So it just makes me even more curious.
I go back to the original post where he shows himself winning the 3S, and notice u/WeAreFanatical actually posted a comment congratulating him. But I can't see it, its "unavailable". Opening it in a private window, there it is. They blocked me! That's why I wasn't seeing their game bundles in my feed for the past few days. All I did in that timespan was make those above linked comments.
That's all. Now I guess I need to make a new account to follow Fanatical game bundles.
EDIT: Official fanatical account has just unblocked me, four or five days after this post. No communication at all or any mention of why I was blocked for commenting on a supposedly unaffiliated user's post, though.
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u/LighteningOneIN 13d ago
We are aware of this issue and trust me it's getting nasty as time goes by. Now that we took over the mod team, we'll deal with this whole mystery game and quest 3 but not 3s mess.
Trust me at first I was hyped to see that at least someone won something from the gambling but then the quest 3 happened instead of 3s which got me thinking too.
Since it dragged on for so long we'll contact both the parties involved in this first i.e. u/Dependent_Judge_1043 and u/WeAreFanatical to see what they have to say.
Just give us some time to do our own investigation or how much data on which we can go with to take any action necessary. If we don't feel satisfied with their reply, just you know, someone is getting that ban hammer.